Ottawa Studying Creation of Federal Agency to Respond to Disasters: Minister

Published on August 15, 2024

Ottawa is studying options to start up a new federal agency for disaster response, similar to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), says Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan. “This is something that I have been looking at for some time,” Sajjan said during an Aug. 12 virtual press conference to provide an update on wildfires, adding that using the military for disaster response is not the ideal strategy. “The Canadian Armed Forces is a very high level asset that we don’t want to just use as a typical labour force,” said Sajjan, who previously held the defence portfolio. FEMA works well for the U.S. in its federal system, the minister said, noting that Canada’s current disaster response capabilities are based in its provinces and territories....

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